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are important in quality assurance to patient care. Poor quality healthcare service will
do more harm to patient instead of helping him to recover. Hence, adaptation strategy
for environmental health should aim to invest in quality management programme.
11.3 Health Adaptation Policies and Measures
Ailment related to health can happen due to many reasons. Communities that do not
decrease the urban heat island effect may be forced to depend on air-conditioning to
reduce heat stress (Health Canada 2012). Communities that do not lessen contamination of drinking water recourse may be forced to depend on water purifier at the
point of use. Communities that do not lessen air-borne disease may be forced to
wear PPEs and impose community lockdown. Absence of vaccine for tackling this
COVID19 relayed upon preventing or slowing using PPEs (Rowan and Laffey 2020).
Telemedicine (TM) became one of the adaptation strategies of communities to
live with the disease. In 2013, 75 million E-Visits out of 600 million appointments
occurred in the United States and Canada (Voran 2015). Mobile videoconferencing
applications enable consultations between patients and healthcare providers from
any location (Zhang et al. 2016). From 2 March 2020 to 14 April 2020, telemedicine
visits at NYU Langone Health in the United States increased from 102.4 to 801.6
daily in response to COVID-19 (Mann et al. 2020). TM has the potential to help by
allowing mildly sick patients to get the helpful care at the same time as reducing
their exposure to other acutely sick patients (Portnoy et al. 2020).
11.3.1 Vulnerability Mapping
Technologies can be used to map urban heat island and alert public health authorities to populations that may be at risk of heat waves (Luber and McGeehin 2008).
Spatial modelling of geo-referenced climate and environmental information was
used to identify characteristics of domestic malaria transmission in 2009–2012 in
Greece to guide malaria control efforts (Sudre et al. 2013). In Portugal, modelling
of Lyme disease indicated that future conditions more favourable in the centre and
northern parts of the country but will be less favourable for disease transmission in
the south (Casimiro et al. 2006).
11.3.2 Early Warning Systems
Early warning systems have been developed in many areas to prevent negative
health impacts through alerting public health authorities and the general public
about climate-related health risks. COVID-19 apps – mobile software applications
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are important in quality assurance to patient care. Poor quality healthcare service will
do more harm to patient instead of helping him to recover. Hence, adaptation strategy
for environmental health should aim to invest in quality management programme.
11.3 Health Adaptation Policies and Measures
Ailment related to health can happen due to many reasons. Communities that do not
decrease the urban heat island effect may be forced to depend on air-conditioning to
reduce heat stress (Health Canada 2012). Communities that do not lessen contamination of drinking water recourse may be forced to depend on water purifier at the
point of use. Communities that do not lessen air-borne disease may be forced to
wear PPEs and impose community lockdown. Absence of vaccine for tackling this
COVID19 relayed upon preventing or slowing using PPEs (Rowan and Laffey 2020).
Telemedicine (TM) became one of the adaptation strategies of communities to
live with the disease. In 2013, 75 million E-Visits out of 600 million appointments
occurred in the United States and Canada (Voran 2015). Mobile videoconferencing
applications enable consultations between patients and healthcare providers from
any location (Zhang et al. 2016). From 2 March 2020 to 14 April 2020, telemedicine
visits at NYU Langone Health in the United States increased from 102.4 to 801.6
daily in response to COVID-19 (Mann et al. 2020). TM has the potential to help by
allowing mildly sick patients to get the helpful care at the same time as reducing
their exposure to other acutely sick patients (Portnoy et al. 2020).
11.3.1 Vulnerability Mapping
Technologies can be used to map urban heat island and alert public health authorities to populations that may be at risk of heat waves (Luber and McGeehin 2008).
Spatial modelling of geo-referenced climate and environmental information was
used to identify characteristics of domestic malaria transmission in 2009–2012 in
Greece to guide malaria control efforts (Sudre et al. 2013). In Portugal, modelling
of Lyme disease indicated that future conditions more favourable in the centre and
northern parts of the country but will be less favourable for disease transmission in
the south (Casimiro et al. 2006).
11.3.2 Early Warning Systems
Early warning systems have been developed in many areas to prevent negative
health impacts through alerting public health authorities and the general public
about climate-related health risks. COVID-19 apps – mobile software applications
11 Living with Environmental Diseases